Blossoms - fulfilment

Blossoms – fulfilment is the first performative installation in Japan presented by Nile Koetting, who adapted it to the warehouse space in Tennoz. Koetting has often used repurposed warehouses as rehearsal studios and training spaces throughout his career. Thanks to this experience, he can see a warehouse as not just a base for logistics but a venue to hone one’s expression and a place where identity can be repeatedly restructured. Warehouse TERRADA G3-6F, the venue for this exhibition, retains the air of a warehouse while being a space where a wide range of artistic expression is born. In this work, the artist brings the history of the venue into a dialogue with his own interpretation, expressing the process through which the human body is trained, edited, and ultimately commodified. This work focuses on audience members paid to clap and cheer, known as sakura in kabuki theater and claques in Western opera. In doing so, it makes a sort of ceremonial practice out of the act of viewing, which, even in this age of everything having commercial value, is still endowed with an exceptional meaning. Koetting uses his unique artistic language to deeply question the very meaning of our bodies in the modern world, as well as the functions assigned to them.

This work’s performance is not limited to the space of the venue and spreads outside to the surrounding urban environment. This expansion into the city transforms the very act of viewing into a new sensory framework that jolts the viewer’s sense of perception.